Football crazy Wilco visits all amateur football fields in the Netherlands
Wilco Polinder is a fanatic football fan with a very special hobby: he visits all Dutch amateur clubs. At the moment he is making a round along the fields in Drenthe, including in Zuidwolde at ZZVV.
Polinder processes the results on his Facebook page ‘Nederlandse Velden’, many reactions are received. “I can hardly handle the reactions, but that’s just fun. In the south of the Netherlands, they also want to know how the clubs in Drenthe are and that’s the other way around too,” says Polinder. “I’m a big football fan, especially amateur clubs. During the week I go out and visit about 20 clubs a day.”
bus driver
The football madman is currently heading for the 600 visited clubs out of a total of 2900. He has been working on this for almost two years. Remarkably enough, he does not visit the clubs on weekends, when football is being played. Polinder: “What I do is ground hopping, others do that, but they also visit competitions. I don’t do that, because I work as a bus driver in Utrecht at the weekend.”
Stand
Polinder visits a total of 117 clubs in Drenthe. He’s almost half way through. When the football fan receives at a club mainly takes pictures and notes. “I photograph the dugout, the goal, the scoreboard and the stands,” says Polinder. “The focus is mainly on the stands, because I really have a weakness for that.”
After each province, he holds an election for the most beautiful grandstand. This summer, Polinder hopes to have been to all Drenthe clubs and he expects that the election can start around that time.
Watch Wilco Polinder’s visit to ZZVV below: